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The team had been conducting testing in macaques of an injectable vaccine developed by researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital.—Atul Gawande, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025 At first the macaques are intrigued by these strange machines, Reinegger
says.—Byrefael Kubersky, science.org, 20 Mar. 2025 Alpha Genesis staff had tried to entice the macaques with food while using humane traps to capture them.—Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2025 Her $60 million contract with the NIH included studying the effects of the vaccines for the deadly disease on macaques, a type of primate.—Meredith Kile, People.com, 17 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for macaque
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Etymology
French, from Portuguese macaco, from kaku mangabey, plural makaku, in one or more Bantu languages of Gabon and Congo
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